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Re: Apple IIplus ROMs in original II?
- Subject: Re: Apple IIplus ROMs in original II?
- From: Mark Percival <mark@syndicomm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:49:35 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Paul Schlyter wrote:
>OK, I had forgot that some early ProDOS versions could run in 48K.
>But you wouldn't be able to start the Basic System on a 48K machine
>with Integer Basic in ROM. You could only make ProDOS autostart
>some binary file which doesn't depend on Applesoft in ROM.
For what it is worth, apparently Apple was initially planning to support
Integer Basic by providing INTEGER.SYSTEM as a Integer Basic replacement
for BASIC.SYSTEM in ProDOS 1.0.x. In 1983 INTEGER.SYSTEM was even
distributed to developers as part of the ProDOS pre-release before being
scrapped.
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